Displays the value of a parameter or a group of parameters in the
    work area. In addition, the command shows the minimum, maximum,
    and default values of a parameter and its unit of measure.

    Format

      PARAMETERS SHOW  [parameter-name]

1  –  Parameter

 parameter-name

    Specifies the name of a parameter or a period (.).  A period is
    interpreted as a request for the parameter specified in the last
    PARAMETERS SET or PARAMETERS SHOW command. The parameter name
    can be abbreviated, but the abbreviation must be unique because
    SYSMAN selects the first parameter that matches.

    Beginning in OpenVMS Version 8.2, if the parameter-name that you
    enter is obsolete, SYSMAN displays OBSOLETE in the Units column.

2  –  Qualifiers

2.1    /ACP

    Displays all Files-11 ACP parameters.

2.2    /ALL

    Displays the values of all active parameters.

2.3    /CLUSTER

    Displays all parameters specific to clusters.

2.4    /DYNAMIC

    Displays all parameters that would be in effect immediately after
    you enter a PARAMETERS WRITE ACTIVE command.

2.5    /GEN

    Displays all general parameters.

2.6    /HEX

    Displays numeric parameters in hexadecimal rather than decimal
    radix. Specify the /HEX system parameter name or the parameter
    type. If you specify the /HEX qualifier with the /NAMES
    qualifier, /HEX is ignored.

2.7    /JOB

    Displays all job controller parameters.

2.8    /LGI

    Displays all LOGIN security control parameters.

2.9    /MAJOR

    Displays the most important parameters.

2.10    /MULTIPROCESSING

    Displays parameters specific to multiprocessing.

2.11    /NAMES

    Displays only parameter names. You can combine other qualifiers
    with this one.

2.12    /OBSOLETE

    Displays the names of all obsolete system parameters.

2.13    /OUTPUT

    Directs output to the specified file rather than SYS$OUTPUT.
    Without a file specification, the output goes to SYSMAN.LIS in
    the current directory.

2.14    /PAUSE

    Controls the rate at which the system displays information about
    parameters.

2.15    /PQL

    Displays the parameters for all default process quotas.

2.16    /RMS

    Displays all parameters specific to OpenVMS Record Management
    Services (RMS).

2.17    /SCS

    Displays all parameters specific to OpenVMS Cluster System
    Communications Services.

2.18    /SPECIAL

    Displays all special control parameters.

2.19    /STARTUP

    Displays the name of the site-independent startup procedure.

2.20    /SYS

    Displays all active system parameters.

2.21    /TTY

    Displays all parameters for terminal drivers.

3  –  Description

    SYSMAN displays parameters in decimal unless you specify the /HEX
    qualifier. ASCII values are always displayed in ASCII.

    Abbreviations for parameter names must be unique because SYSMAN
    displays the first parameter matching the abbreviation. Ambiguity
    checks do not occur. For example, a specification of PARAMETERS
    SHOW GBL displays the GBLSECTIONS parameter. To display the
    GBLPAGFIL parameter, you must specify PARAMETERS SHOW GBLPAGF
    to avoid displaying the GBLPAGES parameter.

    You can use a period (.)  to indicate that you want to work with
    the system parameter that you specified in the last PARAMETERS
    SET or PARAMETERS SHOW command.